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Sean Brooks

Program Associate

Sean Brooks is a Program Associate at the Center for Democracy and Technology's San Francisco office.

Prior to joining the CDT, Sean worked in corporate and enterprise technology media relations with the Red Consultancy, a UK-based high-tech PR agency. Sean has a bachelor's in politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Blog Post - "Exploring Privacy" with the FTC

1/29/2010 Consumer Privacy

At the second in a series of "Exploring Privacy" roundtables held by the Federal Trade Commission, academics, privacy advocates and companies pushed hard for the FTC to take up the reigns of regulating abuses of consumer trust and violations of consumer privacy on the Web.

Here are four key points gleaned from today's FTC Privacy roundtable sessions:

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Issues

-> Free Expression

-> Consumer Privacy

-> Health Privacy

-> Security & Surveillance

-> Digital Copyright

-> Internet Openness & Standards

-> International

-> Open Government

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